Bitch

[Mia]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Suburbanite,)
If words like Fuck and Shit are banned from common use on TV, why is Bitch, a word that actually targets a group of people, still okay to use?
And if anyone says bitch is a female dog I will female dog slap you.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Do they allow "asshole" or any other male equivalent to "bitch"? Thanks

[Mia]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Anniee,)
Depending on context they can say fuck or shit. Still, why is "targets a group of people" the criteria for what shouldn&#39;t be allowed? In that case you&#39;d have to ban 90% of the commercials because they constantly bash men. Come to think of it that would eliminate most of the shows too.

I don&#39;t know, why would what&#39;s allowed on television make sense anyway? TV sucks. Read a book :)<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>


Not on public TV, they can&#39;t. I was surprised to hear bitch. But I wasn&#39;t offended as a women, I just thought "wow, we&#39;ve gotten far away from portraying married couples in separate beds and not even allowed to say "sex"&#33;

And yes, man-bashing seems to be a requirement now&#33; IF you portray a subservient women, you are in deep-shit. But so many shows glorify the hen-pecked, castrated husband.

Wishful thinking?

[Suburbanite]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Mia,)
</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Suburbanite,)
If words like Fuck and Shit are banned from common use on TV, why is Bitch, a word that actually targets a group of people, still okay to use?
And if anyone says bitch is a female dog I will female dog slap you.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Do they allow "asshole" or any other male equivalent to "bitch"? Thanks<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
asshole and bastard are not gender bias.

[Mia]

The point is do they use these words directed at or about men? I&#39;m sensitive to actual feminist issues and to me this is not one.

[Mozart1220]

George Carlin was on the other night and as usual, made several good points. It&#39;s OK to say "he used the "F" word" but you can&#39;t sya "Fuck" even though when you say "f word" EVERONE knows what word you mean. You can say "BS" but not "Bullshit", etc.

We make it seem like we are not using foul language, but if everbody knows what the euphemisms mean, why not just say the word?

Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock can yell "Nigger" all over prime time TV, but "Tom Sawyer" is banned in some communities because it dares to use it in a story about the 19th century south.

[Mia]

They cannot say that on regular TV. They can on cable shows where they can also say s*** and f***.

[Suburbanite]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Mia,)
The point is do they use these words directed at or about men? I&#39;m sensitive to actual feminist issues and to me this is not one.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

This isn&#39;t about feminism it is about censorship. It doesn&#39;t make sense to me. It has yet to be explained.

[riciglia1]

censorship has been around forever... i mean comon just to books... they fucking censor those for the stupidest things possible, and they have been around longer than tv and commercials

[riciglia1]

oh even the bible is censored there is stuff they took out of the original cause it had too much sex and killing in it for "our" good

[riciglia1]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Mozart1220,)

Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock can yell "Nigger" all over prime time TV, but "Tom Sawyer" is banned in some communities because it dares to use it in a story about the 19th century south.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

this is only reproving my statement

[PatrickHenry]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (blaroi,)
Why banning such words from television anyway(after children&#39;s bedtime)? It&#39;s just one of the many things I do not understand of the hypocritical American society... Start banning the legitimacy of owning gun&#39;s. That&#39;s at least a real source of problems.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Second Amendment, foreigner.

I got an idea. Why don&#39;t you come get my guns?

[PatrickHenry]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (riciglia1,)
oh even the bible is censored there is stuff they took out of the original cause it had too much sex and killing in it for "our" good<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Sources?